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Best Free Resources to Learn Swahili (2019)
From people learning Swahili every day in Tanzania, the best resources we’ve found for learning Swahili online.… Read More
Hebrew Words and Phrases to Make you Sound Local
A list of everyday Hebrew words and phrases to sound like a local in Israel.… Read More
I Learned Ten Sentences of Hebrew a Day for a Month… Here’s What Happened
I learned Hebrew for an hour a day for 30 days, using a new technique: learning 10 sentences and recording myself. Here’s the result — me speaking.… Read More
Building Hebrew’s Cultural Fortress
Hebrew is thousands of years old and yet has evolved into a language that many use as their primary — or only — language. This is its story.… Read More
Mandarin Chinese Learning Resources that Got me Fluent
Mandarin Chinese was my sixth language to learn to fluency. Here are my favourite resources that I used, all of which are the best today. Most of them are free or cheap!… Read More
Learn Hebrew Cheaply with These Resources
The best resources we used to get good in beginner Hebrew fast, all of them cheap (and some free).… Read More
Review of Lingvist: Fun, but Incomplete
Lingvist is a fun app that teaches you sentences by getting you to put in the missing word. However, we wouldn’t recommend it for serious language study.… Read More
How Hard is Korean for English speakers?
Korean isn’t too hard — but it was harder than I thought when I tried to learn it in late 2018! Here’s my view, as an experienced language learner, of how hard it is.… Read More
Hebrew and Spoken Arabic — How Similar Are They?
They’re both Semitic languages… but how similar are they? After learning to speak Arabic (and decent Hebrew) I try to answer this question in an easy-to-understand way.… Read More
Egyptian Arabic in 60 days: Our final 60-day videos
We learned to speak Egyptian Arabic in 60 days. See the video evidence, read how we did it and what we learned for our future challenges.… Read More